The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-05
Armed Detectives Swarm Everywhere, Much
to the Amazement and Annoyance of Even
the Most Rabid of the Conservatives.
The Present Line of Policy in Ireland
Will Be Continued at ALI Hazards.
Emperor William Receivers Sufficiently to Ap-
pear at the Palace Windows and Receive
the Peoples Greetings-Cable Notes.
yALFoUR AT BIRMINGHAM.
Arrangements for Protecting the Secretar
Coercion To BE Rigidly Enforced.

Arrangements for Projecting the Secretary
Coercion To BE Rigidly Enforced.
LONDON, Nov. 4-The preparations of the
| police to protect Mr.. Balfour on his arrival at
Birmingham this afternoon were astounding in
| their completeness and ridiculous in their mag
| nitude. The platforms of the railroad stations
| and the approaches thereto were patroiled by
| large number of detectives, heavily armed, and
| upon aliehting from the train the Irish Secre-
| tary was met by the chief of the Birmingham
| police, who walked one side, while detective
| kent at his elbow on the other. Even Tories,
who believe. pretend to believe, thai
| Mr. BaIfour is watched by Irish
assassns too eager to seize the first opDortunity
presenting itself to kill him. were amazed at the
extent of the arrangements of the police to guard
against attack upon the rather effeminate
gentleman who is intrusted with the work Of
crushing the spirits and overthrowing the COM
mon rights OF the Irish people, and amused at
the seriousness with which Mr.. Balfour himself
accepted the situation. The precautions GER
tainly overtopped anything of the kind that has
ever bsen considered necessary to the protection
of government official in Ireland, and came
very near to a tacit admission that the course Of
the government in applying the coercion
act has aroused the indignation of the
people of England as well es of Ire
land Mr.. Balfour received during the
day hundred addresses from Conservative asso-
Citations, and in thanking the deputations whicE
brought them, he gave assurance that the gov
ernment were resolved proceed boldly and
firmly with the work they had taken in hand in
Ireland and bring it to good conclusion. He ad-
mitted the task WAS difficult one. but held that
it was perfectly possible and capable of success
full accomplishment. Certain incidents il Ire
land had caused some of their friends misgivings
but those incidents were due not to lack of res
olution on the part of the government, but to
defects in the law, which had never contem-
plated the present system Of organized populaI
rebellion.
Mr.. Balfour addressed large and enthusias-
tic audience at the town hall this evening. He
said he hoped that at the next session Of Parla-
ment England and Scotland would get fair
share of legislation. Still. the Irish question
would remain the foremost problem in the minds
of every one who took an interest in the for
tunes of his country. He had noticed that Mr..
Gladstone Ihooting, cries Of chips and
laughterl, although he had mentioned his pro-
eramme of legislation, did not appear to take q
very lively interest in it himself. Except as re-
CARDS the offer of the plundering of the Scotch
and Welsh churches bribe for the dismem-
berment of the empire, MIR. Gladstone dis
played little interest in anything except ths
Irish question. and had done more to
make it impossible to ignore the Irish question.
Therefore, Ireland would be his tBalfour's)
topic tonight. The question was not whether
Ireland was to be governed under her own or an
English Parliament, but whether she was 10 be
governed at all IN accordance with any of tn oso
principles which had hitherto regulated the
ton of every civilized state in the world
fCheers. Referring to the events Of the winter
of 1885, he COMPARED the Liberal party to those
barbarc ancestors who got baptized because
their king embraced Christianity. One morn
ing Mr. Gladstone announced himself q Home
ruler and forthwith a large section of the Lib
erals declared themselves Home-rulers Some
for their conversion, while others, like Har-
court, evidently believed that "the leat said the
soonest mended," and that it was possible for
men to alter their opinion regarding Ire
land and yet retain the tradi-
tions hitherto governing their party.
They might have allied themselves with the
Parnellite party, far as the question of home
rule was concerned. and rejected fusion; bus
they had, instead. rejected alliance and ac-
cepted fusion, and their principal object now.
as evidenced by every paragraph OF Mr. Glad
stones shameful speeches. was to render diff
cult the government of Ireland. In condemn
ing Mr.. Gladstone's inconsistency ard his pres
eut tactics. Mr.. Balfour declared that not ons
of the evictions now occurring could have been
prevented, if the amendment which Mr..
Gladstone wanted had been inserted in the land
bill Mr. Gladstone's CRITICISMS on land leeisla-
ton were strange, indeed, coming from man
who for sixteen seventeen years had fruit
lessy tinkered with the question
In regard to the unhappy affair at Mitchels-
town. MIR. Gladstone had attacked him Balfouri
personally for not listening in silence to bitter
attacks made on men who spent their lives in
defense OF the law The demon of inaccuracy
had pursued Mr.. Gladstone even to his asser-
tions this subject But it was necessary to
enter into details in justifying the police IT, as
the Nationalists and Mr.. Gladstone delighted to
say. the police were defeated and routed, could
any one blame them if they fred2 [Crias of
Tb0 he Nnf1n atIz in
cluding Mr.. Gladstone, must choose upon
which horse they will ride If they choose
triumph in the defeat of the police, let them not
blame the police for firing in self-defense. III
they choose to say that fhe police were brutal
butchers. and that they fred without
cause, let us hear no more of this triumph
at their defeat. Mr.. Gladstone'ss attack on the
| character of Constable Whelaban. who was muir
dered by moonlighters. was the most monstrous
to his followers. The statement that the police
had paid an informer previous to planning the
outrage was totally untrue In comparison the
number OF meetings proclaimed by the Conserv
atlves much less than during Mr.. Glad
stones administration. Continuing. Mr.. Bal
four said he intended to stop speakers who di-
rectly advocated crime, but to tolerate those
who only talked nonsense. Earl Spencer, he
said, moved uEeasly in the Parnelite livery.
but Mr. Gladstone as II TO the manor born:
He concluded by predicting that steady appli-
cation of the present policy of the governments
would result in the Irish becoming enthusiastic
and loyal supporters OF empire which they
by their virtues fitted to acorn.
The government is resolved to prosecute all
persons who took part in the midnight meeting
at Woodford on Sunday, Oct l6. at which
the proclaim alton of the Lord lieutenant forbid
ding the meeting was burned Among those to
be prosecuted are James Rowland. T. T. Gill
and David Sheehy, members Of Parliament, and
Mr. Dennehy secretary to the Lord Mayor Of
Dublin.
A New Home-RuIe Champion.
NEW YORK. Oct. An Ottawa special says
Excitement was intense here LAST night over a
report that Hon. Edward Blake, leader Of the
opposition in the Dominion Parliament, had been